EXCLUSIVE! New EVGA Classified Dual-Proc Board - 270-GT-W555!

[ShadowFox19]

What standard is that? Too big to be XL ATX and too small to be WTX.

I'm thinking it's a hybrid, and can be mounted on the same tray as an XL-ATX board...but I'm just guessing by looking at the mounting holes.

[jfromeo]

Damn if that's true, from Lian Li, only PC-A77 and PC-P80 will be able to host it (390mm clearance).

[Toritechie]

Hmmmm, I'd love to get one of these boards ... but will it fit in my Coolermast Cosmos 1000 case???

[lowfat]

Hmmmm, I'd love to get one of these boards ... but will it fit in my Coolermast Cosmos 1000 case???

no. It will not fit in any standard case.

[Bolas]

Damn, I thought beforehand this year would be quite dull, hardware-wise. But in ~March we are getting:

ASUS Rampage III Extreme
EVGA 270-GT
Fermi series
i7-980X (32nm hexacores)

Yummy :P Who is going to pick three of them?

Only tough decision for me is the EVGA board or the Asus board. Leaning towards EVGA.

I'll be buying three of those four come April. Will need a lot of friendly advice from the folks at xtremesystems.org to make everything work properly though.... so please be kind, when I'm asking for help and advice, it's cause I need it, not cause I'm trying to say "look at all my cool hardware" or something stupid like that.

Will the EVGA board run Windows 7 if both sockets are occupied with Xeon chips, or would I have to buy some kind of Windows Server OS?

Well ok not three out of the four above, I would potentially be buying a pair of 32nm Gulftown Xeon cpus to go with the EVGA board, would only do the i7 980X if I went with the Asus board.

[slim142]

ITS RETARDED

What cases are certified for this motherboard then? Can somebody tell me at least a couple to see if I will need $500 just for a case?

[tiro_uspsss]

ITS RETARDED

What cases are certified for this motherboard then? Can somebody tell me at least a couple to see if I will need $500 just for a case?

waawaawaa

I reckon there will be a subsection here @ XS for this mobo & under that subsection will be a thread dedicated to the cases that house this behemoth - & I'm gonna bet most will be hand made from scratch.. that or *heavily modified LARGE cases like CM stackers, LL V2xxx & MoMo etc

[lowfat]

ITS RETARDED

What cases are certified for this motherboard then? Can somebody tell me at least a couple to see if I will need $500 just for a case?

rackmounts

Besides that I don't know if there are any out there.

[Newblar]

Only tough decision for me is the EVGA board or the Asus board. Leaning towards EVGA.

I'll be buying three of those four come April. Will need a lot of friendly advice from the folks at xtremesystems.org to make everything work properly though.... so please be kind, when I'm asking for help and advice, it's cause I need it, not cause I'm trying to say "look at all my cool hardware" or something stupid like that.

Will the EVGA board run Windows 7 if both sockets are occupied with Xeon chips, or would I have to buy some kind of Windows Server OS?

Well ok not three out of the four above, I would potentially be buying a pair of 32nm Gulftown Xeon cpus to go with the EVGA board, would only do the i7 980X if I went with the Asus board.

yeah it should work fine on windows 7

if i bought this mobo, id definitely buy or build a custom bench solution
the idea of an extreme expensive case is not all that appealing to me...

[IronWarrior]

ITS RETARDED

What cases are certified for this motherboard then? Can somebody tell me at least a couple to see if I will need $500 just for a case?

Not really, what do you expect, it's a motherboard with two CPU sots and 7 PCI-E x16 slots... of cause it's going to need a large case and there are some, the P80 will have no problem fitting it.

[cdolphin]

That thing is spectacular!!! And for only ~ 500 dollars, it is a steal, in my opinion.
1600 will get you an insane folding rig...1600 dollars for two i7-920's and the DP EVGA classified plus 300 or so for cooling loop, a cheap gpu, two 800 W psus.
Imagine the bigadv ppd... If it scales well, probably in excess of 50k at 4.0 ghz (that is where you will need a chunk of ram, 16gb for 16 cores on -bigadv -smp 16

[Blauhung]

That thing is spectacular!!! And for only ~ 500 dollars, it is a steal, in my opinion.
1600 will get you an insane folding rig...1600 dollars for two i7-920's and the DP EVGA classified plus 300 or so for cooling loop, a cheap gpu, two 800 W psus.
Imagine the bigadv ppd... If it scales well, probably in excess of 50k at 4.0 ghz (that is where you will need a chunk of ram, 16gb for 16 cores on -bigadv -smp 16

again, you are going to have to use DP xenon chips with this, do not count on i7's ever working in it

[jfromeo]

The price of it will be astronomical here in Spain, given the E762 is tagged at 450€ (~$650), I can't imagine this monster under 500€ (~$700)

[Katanai]

Hmmmm, I'd love to get one of these boards ... but will it fit in my Coolermast Cosmos 1000 case???

Yeah it will, with modifications of course. The Cosmos chassis can fit an EATX mobo with some room to spare so I don't see why this won't...

[Toritechie]

Yeah it will, with modifications of course. The Cosmos chassis can fit an EATX mobo with some room to spare so I don't see why this won't...

I hope you're right - I need to find some actual dimensions for this board, and do some measurements inside the Coolermaster Cosmos1000.

[s0lid]

Who needs cases anyways? I haven't had one for about 3-4 months, cartboard box is all you need

It's a fun rig. I'll post the screenies later, nothing too impressive given the CPUs we had. 200bclk though was solid

Sounds promising with pair of X5680s bclk won't be a problem
200x26 12 cores at 5.2GHz

[LardArse]

not bad on air with just 20x multi:

[Expat GriZ]

not bad on air with just 20x multi:

Excuse me, Sham...can you please direct me to the purchase line??

[DragoonXX]

hexa cores?

[Bolas]

Who needs cases anyways? I haven't had one for about 3-4 months, cartboard box is all you need

Well I have an 18 month old daughter who is very inquisitive. I'm not about to let her hurt herself (or my hardware) by poking around on an exposed system. Which would for sure happen if I didn't have a case around it to protect from little fingers. So I need a case.

Lucky me though, I'm in the market for a new case, so I can pick one that can hold this motherboard.

[Bolas]

yeah it should work fine on windows 7

if i bought this mobo, id definitely buy or build a custom bench solution
the idea of an extreme expensive case is not all that appealing to me...

What versions of Windows 7? Home Premium 64-bit? Or would I need to get Pro or Ult to run dual socket? Presumably all versions, but I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to require ult to run dual socket.

[Mick64]

I'm thinking about adding a couple more PCI slots to my case design for the EVGA XL-ATX, this board would have plenty of room in there.







I know it's not real, but haven't given up, and things are happening that may make it a reality......

[tiro_uspsss]

that looks waaaay too hot - u r forbidden to make it!

[Blauhung]

I'm thinking about adding a couple more PCI slots to my case design for the EVGA XL-ATX, this board would have plenty of room in there.



I know it's not real, but haven't given up, and things are happening that may make it a reality......

Since the first time I saw your render I wanted one...

Now I see a board I really want to put in it...

[jcool]

What versions of Windows 7? Home Premium 64-bit? Or would I need to get Pro or Ult to run dual socket? Presumably all versions, but I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to require ult to run dual socket.

IIRC you need at least Pro. HP traditionally doesn't support more than one socket.